Douglas Adams Written Dr. Who Episode Goes Into Production
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chrisd
on from the let-go-of-my-coat-tegan dept.
oddsheep writes "The BBC have announced they will be showing a new version of an episode originally written by Douglas Adams and that was never shown after industrial action halted the original production in 1979." "Shada" will star Paul McGann as the Doctor.
But here's an interesting question. How many people here have seen the old "Dr. What" show? I watched it once, on the BBC or the PPC or something like that, and by the end I was rolling around on the ground, trying to claw my eyes from their sockets. "Why?" I hear you ask. Simple. The very Britishness of the show got into my skull and put a demon named Todd in it. I wrote a letter of complaint to the MMD or the DVG and they basically responded with a question, like one of those unintelligible Zen koans. I actually had to go down to the GHG or TPY offices (I took the number 41 bus) with a pickle jar containing my eyeballs in brine (I had already eaten the pickles, mind you) to get them to refund my lost time. Anyway, the Dr. What (or was it Dr. Whence?) show didn't last very long. I think they cancelled it after four episodes and fifty or sixty thousand complaints (most of which came from myself and my late aunt Charfles (with a silent "f")). I hope this Dr. Who show is better, but you know what they say: if it comes from England, you just can't trust it not to put a demon in your brain.
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But here's an interesting question. How many people here have seen the old "Dr. What" show? I watched it once, on the BBC or the PPC or something like that, and by the end I was rolling around on the ground, trying to claw my eyes from their sockets. "Why?" I hear you ask. Simple. The very Britishness of the show got into my skull and put a demon named Todd in it. I wrote a letter of complaint to the MMD or the DVG and they basically responded with a question, like one of those unintelligible Zen koans. I actually had to go down to the GHG or TPY offices (I took the number 41 bus) with a pickle jar containing my eyeballs in brine (I had already eaten the pickles, mind you) to get them to refund my lost time. Anyway, the Dr. What (or was it Dr. Whence?) show didn't last very long. I think they cancelled it after four episodes and fifty or sixty thousand complaints (most of which came from myself and my late aunt Charfles (with a silent "f")). I hope this Dr. Who show is better, but you know what they say: if it comes from England, you just can't trust it not to put a demon in your brain.